Some people call it “a hacker in a box”, “DOS attack in a box”, or “vulnerability torture chamber”, the official name is Mu-4000. An appliance produced by one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups. Mu Security, today announced an important enhancement for their Security analyzer.

What the automobile industry has been doing for a long time – crashing a car into a wall and see what happens, is gaining increasing support amongst companies and organizations that want to proactively test their products against every imaginable type of attack. It’s called negative testing and Mu Security’s tagline could also be – “We break stuff”. Once unleashed, it’ll create a fury of attack scenarios that will only stop once it knocked the target object off the network.
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